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Merritt, Karen B.


Primary examiner statistics: 742 patents; average approval time: 651 days
Assistant examiner statistics: 489 patents; average approval time: 521 days

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NumberTitleIssue Date
5388765Gas turbine nozzle construction
A planar top plate (32) has film cooling slots (34) therein. A rigid honeycomb structure (38) sealingly joins this top plate with bottom plate (36). Cooling air distributed by openings (50) impinges on the top plate and passes through metering openings (4...
02/14/1995
5348228Water sprayer with flow rate control
A water sprayer comprising a body having an exit cone on the inside connected between a transverse chamber and an outlet hole and controlled by an expanded tip of a fluid control rod through a trigger to let water flow from the transverse chamber toward t...
09/20/1994
5337960Portable support apparatus for evaporative cooling
A lightweight, portable and collapsible support apparatus for pressurized water conveyance and overhead mist spraying nozzles (88). A single rear elongated leg (2) extends outwardly to the rear of the apparatus. Two front elongated legs (3R, 3L) extend fo...
08/16/1994
5322219Balloon forest fertilization
A process for applying particles to a geographic region. The process involves flying a balloon over the region. The balloon carries a nozzle with a pipe communicating the nozzle with a ground supply of air and a source of particles. A mixture of air and p...
06/21/1994
5318225Methods and apparatus for preparing mixtures with compressed fluids
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for forming a liquid spray mixture containing accurately proportionated amounts of viscous coating concentrate and compressed fluid diluent such as carbon dioxide. The proportionation is accomplished by passing the flui...
06/07/1994
5314122Fuel injection valve
Fuel injection valves have swirl-generating configurations in order to atomize the fuel as it passes through a narrow flow opening. The fuel injection valve of the invention includes a conduit segment leading to a cylindrical injection conduit. The condui...
05/24/1994
5307993Rotary sprinkler
A rotary sprinkler is provided having a stationary base portion, with a water inlet for attachment to a conventional garden hose, and a vertically oriented water outlet having a body portion rotatably secured thereto. A plurality of generally cylindrical ...
05/03/1994
5307997Fuel injector swirl passages
Each swirl passages of the needle guide and fuel swirl member of a fuel injector has a longer and wider entrance portion and a shorter and narrower exit portion to allow only the latter portion, not the former portion, to perform a metering function. Prod...
05/03/1994
5307991Fuel injector and method of manufacturing
A fuel injector for an internal combustion engine includes a preassembled permanently mated needle and valve body group contained in a main housing assembly. The valve body group is assembled so that the maximum allowable stroke of the needle is establish...
05/03/1994
5292069Convertible plug nozzle
A plug nozzle is convertible to and from an open nozzle by moving several components. The convergent flap moves between an outboard convergent flap position and a central plug position. Divergent flaps, hinged to the convergent flaps, move between the out...
03/08/1994
5273211Trailer device for mixing and spreading sand and peat
The invention comprises a mobile trailer having a frame with a set of wheels on the frame for hauling the trailer and a pair of storage bins on the frame in side by side spaced relation with one bin adapted to a receive peat with a mixing blade to mix the...
12/28/1993
5269465Liquid distributor tray for heat exchange equipment
A liquid distributor tray in heat exchange equipment, mass exchange equipment or reactors having roughly horizontal liquid distributor channels disposed in the tray, which channels, via openings, deliver the liquid downwards to fingers from which the liqu...
12/14/1993
5269460Evaporator device, particularly for volatile active substances such as insecticides, perfumes and the like
Disclosed is an evaporator for volatile active substances such as insecticides or perfumes. It has a housing containing ports through which the active substance emerges. The housing is made up of at least two housing sections which are movable about a hin...
12/14/1993
5265804Electrically controlled fuel injector unit
An electrically controlled fuel injector unit for fuel injection in internal combustion engines, in which an injection pump, an injection nozzle, and between them a control valve and control magnet are fastened in a fuel injector unit housing. The control...
11/30/1993
5255846Spray control apparatus for use with texturizer machines
A deflector is attached to a texturizer sprayer, the deflector being in the shape of a truncated cone with a tapered deflector wall which intercepts a portion of the stream of air-entrained texturizing material emitted by the sprayer. The deflector forms ...
10/26/1993
5253807Multi-outlet emitter and method
An emitter has a plurality of circumferentially disposed fittings releasably connected thereon. A pressure-compensated flow control valve is mounted in at least some of the fittings and the control valves have varied flow rates. A plug is inserted into ou...
10/19/1993
5253810High heat, high pressure, non-corrosive injector assembly
An injector assembly is provided for use with a high heat, high pressure bustion chamber which utilizes a highly corrosive fuel. The injector assembly includes a ceramic injector which has an annular ceramic flange. A metallic retaining apparatus is prov...
10/19/1993
5249748Electrostatic spraying installation for conductive liquid coating product
An electrostatic spraying installation for conductive liquid coating product comprises a circuit for distributing fluids including the conductive coating product. At least one coating product sprayer is fed by this circuit and is connected to a variable o...
10/05/1993
5248092Pulsating spray nozzle
A pulsating nozzle which includes a rotating head driven by reaction forces of high pressure water passing through outlets disposed at an angle to a plane normal to the axis about which the head rotates and through a plurality of spaced passages extending...
09/28/1993
5248096Air brush
An air brush is shown and described having separate gas delivery and media delivery portions whereby different media delivery portions may be provided with alternate media or media colors and selectively mounted upon the gas delivery portion. The media de...
09/28/1993
5246169Shower head
A shower head has a housing having an end wall provided with a plurality of sets of spray nozzles, a partition element defining in the housing a pressurizable inlet chamber and formed offset from the axis with an axially throughgoing outlet hole, and a va...
09/21/1993
5244153Water gun directional nozzle
Present invention is a water gun nozzle assembly for attachment to the barrel of a water gun having an egress path for shooting water through a nozzle. The nozzle assembly includes a nozzle head with an orifice for connection to an egress path of a toy wa...
09/14/1993
5244152Fuel-injection valve for internal-combustion engines
A fuel injection nozzle for internal combustion engines has a nozzle body, a valve needle displaceably supported by the nozzle body, and a nozzle holder connected with the nozzle body and containing a spring chamber having a base. In the spring chamber ar...
09/14/1993
5244154Perforated plate and fuel injection valve having a performated plate
A fuel injection valve including a perforated silicon plate disposed downstream of a valve seat and having an atomization opening that widens in the flow direction. The perforated silicon plate has at least one elongated recess on an upper end face orient...
09/14/1993
5242120Multi component fertilizer supply system for a mobile spreader
A distribution system for agricultural chemicals includes a primary auger conveyor that delivers particulates from a common hopper structure. The hopper is provided with primary and secondary particulate compartments. Primary particulate compartment disch...
09/07/1993
5242117Fuel injector for a gas turbine engine
A fuel injector is disclosed for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber a gas turbine engine which includes an injector nozzle having a central axis, first and second fuel injection paths in which one of the fuel injection paths supplies fuel to the in...
09/07/1993
5242119Laminar spout attachment
A laminar stream spout attachment for faucets comprises a plurality of spaced-apart parallel perforated plates and associated screens. The perforated plates reduce flow velocity and distribute the flow uniformly across the attachment. The screens operate ...
09/07/1993
5240186Portable electrostatic liquid sprayer
A portable electrostatic liquid sprayer including a small internal combustion engine with a magneto-type ignition system providing a high voltage source to inductively charge atomized droplets being sprayed onto crops or plants. A conductive voltage tap i...
08/31/1993
5238190Offset nozzle assembly
A nozzle assembly, adapted to mount to the distribution manifold of a spray head attachment, comprises a nozzle body fixedly mounted to the distribution manifold, a nozzle attachment rotatably mounted to the nozzle body and a nozzle plate carried by the n...
08/24/1993
5236131Vehicle for distributing liquid over the ground
A wheeled vehicle carries a reel 3 on to which part of a long length of hose may be coiled, with the end of the hose coupled to a hose connection 10 which conveys water to a hollow axle 7 about which the reel 3 rotates and through a swivel coupling 12 to ...
08/17/1993
5236129Ergonomic hand held paint spray gun
An ergonomic hand held paint spray gun which reduces operator fatigue and stress. The handle of spray gun has an ergonomically designed shape and the size of the handle may be changed through the use of different size handle covers. The spray gun has a pl...
08/17/1993
5234169Removable sprinkler nozzle
An improved sprinkler comprises a nozzle body having a nozzle received in a recessed seat provided in a peripheral wall of the nozzle body. The nozzle body has a rotatable upper cover. A cam surface is formed on the cover and extends down into engagement ...
08/10/1993
5234164Device for high speed flame spraying of refractory wire of powder weld filler for the coating of surfaces
The invention relates to a process for high-speed flame spraying of refractory wire and powder weld filler for the coating of surfaces, using at least two gas mix systems operating independently of each other, with which the wire or powder spray weld fill...
08/10/1993
5234170Fuel injection valve
A fuel injection valve for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines has a hollow nozzle body with a fuel valve chamber and with a nozzle opening for the emergence of the fuel. A valve seat, which interacts with a valve member, is formed in th...
08/10/1993
5234167One-piece foamer nozzle
The one-piece foamer nozzle comprises an inner cap portion, an outer barrel portion, and an internal wall inside the nozzle between the cap portion and the barrel portion. The internal wall has a central orifice therethrough. The cap portion has a cavity ...
08/10/1993
5232165Sprinkling device for showers
Sprinkling device for installation in showers at the outlet of a water pipe is provided with at least one deflector having a plurality of peripheral vanes of a central spindle which is coaxially mounted in a first, preferably cylindrical, inner chamber. T...
08/03/1993
5232159Sprinkler and edging apparatus
A sprinkler and edging apparatus includes an extruded plastic section having a tubular portion and a depending web portion with a flange, the tubular portion having a pattern of slits on a front side thereof to create a mist for watering landscape plants ...
08/03/1993
5232162Hand-held water sprayer with adjustable spray settings
An adjustable spray cup of a water sprayer is provided to adjust the amount of water flowing through a nozzle of the water sprayer to produce variations in the dimensions of the ejected water streams....
08/03/1993
5228620Atomizing nozzle and process
High pressure atomizing nozzle includes a high pressure gas manifold having a divergent expansion chamber between a gas inlet and arcuate manifold segment to minimize standing shock wave patterns in the manifold and thereby improve filling of the manifold...
07/20/1993
5228624Swirling structure for mixing two concentric fluid flows at nozzle outlet
A nozzle device for causing two fluids to mix together. In particular, a spray nozzle comprise two hollow, concentric housings, an inner housing and an outer housing. The inner housing has a channel formed therethrough for a first fluid. Its outer surface...
07/20/1993
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